What it does
Photos from phones and cameras carry hidden details: often the exact GPS location where they were taken, the phone or camera model, its serial number, and the date and time. Anyone who gets the original file can read them. This tool shows you what each photo contains and removes it, without re-compressing the picture, so the quality stays exactly the same. Only two things are kept on purpose: the rotation, so the photo isn’t shown sideways, and the colour profile, so colours don’t shift.
How to use it
- Click “Choose images”, drop your JPG, PNG or WebP photos onto the box, or paste with Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac).
- Each photo is checked in your browser. Next to it you’ll see what was found and removed, such as the GPS location, the camera model or the date it was taken.
- Download the cleaned photos one by one, or all at once as a ZIP, and share those instead of the originals.
Common uses
- Selling something online without revealing your home address through the photo’s GPS tag
- Sending photos of your children or your home to people outside your family
- Publishing photos on a blog or forum that doesn’t remove metadata itself
- Checking what a photo you received says about where and when it was taken
Tips
- Big social networks usually strip location data when you post, but files sent by email, cloud links, AirDrop or as “documents” in chat apps keep it.
- On iPhone you can also turn off location for a photo in the share sheet (Options → Location), but this tool removes the rest as well.
- An embedded thumbnail can still show a photo’s original framing after it was cropped, which is one more reason to clean edited photos.